How did I get here today? So I grew up in Miami, Florida. Um, very early on, I wanted to go to college, Right, Because I grew up in a family where, um, my parents only went to high school. So I was actually the first eso I ended up applying to ST John's University here in New York City on E got accepted. And so I chose to major in computer science eso I went there for four years. Eso that's my my whole story. It's the I would say that my story is more of the American dream right where I came from. Nothing. And and now here here I am. I mean, professional, right? So incidents and experiences that shaped my life. So when I first moved to New York back in 2000, I was 18 years old, right? So I kind of recall I used to live in Brooklyn and I used to catch one bus, no, three trains and one bus every day, each way to go to school and come back. I think that because I work hard and those four years were very, very hard, right being ah young student. I was only like 17 years old. But I persevere, right? So I never give up. So I think that, um if you if anybody can learn from this experience, is this if you put your mind to it And if you decide to become if you are determined to be successful, then that sky is the limit.

I'm going to start with my job. So I made chief chief architect at IBM for for cloud. Right? So my big, pretty much role is this right? Eyes to speak with customers high end into the enterprise world right where it be, uh, large banks, insurance firms, Um, s O My goal is to pretty much go out and speak with their sitios on all of the offerings that we have, right pretending to cloud right, because now we are moving into the cloud world, right? So? So if you're talking about the world of technology today, right, so we have cloud big data. We have security and develops. So that's those are the things that I do on a regular basis, Uh, top three priorities. It's really to sell. Tell the IBM story, and then, of course, make money. Right. So So these are the things that that bring me joy. Okay. And weekly work hours, um, currently because of the cove in 19 cases right now, I'm currently working from home. I make my own schedule kind off. If I have meetings typical week. I don't want the typical 40 hour week because it's fluctuates, right? If I have a client calls here and there. You know, it depends. I would say my with ours kind of depends sometimes more, sometimes less that

I think that the major challenges for my job is that, um um Now, I am positioning the IBM public cloud. Right? Andi, I am competing against the Valley of the Beast. You know, azure, and it'll be us. So as the IBM cloud, I mean, we are picking up a lot of steam because we pretty much required, uh, red hat. Right. And And we are sort of leveraging that to get us into the marketplace, right? Because, um adieu and it'll be us. I mean, they were there, like, way before we did, right? And then now we are Customers are starting to notice what we can do, right? And I think that my approach is well on the messaging. We are tailoring the messaging. Like I think more towards develops how we can help customers in that has a develop shop, right? Uh, couple with the red hat products with Lennox with with open shift right to give developers a platform where they can actually develop their their application on top of kubernetes and doctor. I mean, that's the message that we're trying thio convey to our clients. Um discussing help example will help students learn better um, I think that in terms of, um, I think to me, it's almost like you have to learn your craft, right? Make sure that whatever you put your mind to it, you'll be the best at it. Right. Um, and now in the technology world is so vast, you know, there's different to me. I feel like students should focus on four things. Number one is big data. The reason being is this big data is changing our world on the data data, right. The other one is Cloud Cloud Cloud is there to actually stay right? It will not go nowhere. Right? So you go, You're gonna have customers that are gonna move their workload or data toe to the cloud. Third is security. You need security because you want your data, Thio be secure. Right. Um, fourth develops. Nowadays, we are focusing more on the on the application side more than anything else. So developers are you toe toe, actually stay. I mean, these are like the four paths, and I see that's gonna be fiving your, uh yes,